V. I.

Lenin

773

To:   G. K. ORJONIKIDZE

16/X.1922

Comrade Sergo:

Both Stalin and Sokolnikov have turned out to be against appropriations for an electric-power station near
Tiflis.

Compromise: Tumanov’s trip.

Pay particular attention to this (it also involves the question of tea , etc.).

Collect all the material (for the business manager).

Send me both the material and a short summary (for me personally). This will be a hard
fight. [1]

Yours,

Lenin

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Notes:
[1]
During the discussion of appropriations for the construction of
the Zemo-Avchal Hydropower Station near Tiflis, A. S. Svanidze,
agent for the People’s Commissariat for Finance of the
R.S.F.S.R. and the People’s Commissariat for Finance of the
Transcaucasian Federation, declared that the Tiflis Soviet, had
enough resources to build the station without Moscow aid. This
standpoint was upheld by Stalin and Sokolnikov. In view of the
differences on this question, the Politbureau of the R.C.P.(B.)
C.C. on October 12, 1922, instructed N. G. Tumanov, senior
controller of the People’s Commissariat for Finance, to find out
at the Georgian C.P.C. whether local resources would suffice,
how much was necessary and how far a loan could be covered by
Georgian tea.

This question was finally settled later. On March 1, 1923, the
Politbureau, taking into account the protest of the Georgian
C.P.C., the Tiflis Soviet and the power-station construction
committee, and also G. K. Orjonikidze’s proposal, decided to let
the Tiflis City Executive Committee have a 750,000 gold-ruble
loan to cover the needs of the power station (Central Party
Archives of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism of the C.P.S.U. Central
Committee).